"I loved comedy. I was the best friend. I wasn't a leading lady," she tells the magazine. "[But] it allowed me to express myself in a more authentic way. Because I didn't fit a certain type, it gave me the career I wanted."

Butler makes his star-making, muscle-baring turn as the Spartan King Leonidas in 300, the film adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel. "Gerry carries the movie," director Zack Snyder tells Newsweek. "There was a concern that if we had an actor who people did not know, they wouldn't know who to follow in this tale. But Gerry has such powerful charisma and presence, you just want to be led into battle." The film debuts with ticket sales of $70 million over its opening weekend.

This week, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that bans forced sterilizations in state prisons. The new law makes the practice of sterilizing incarcerated people without their knowledge or consent?illegal, “except when required for the immediate preservation of life in an emergency medical situation or when medically necessary.” Prisons in the state are also now required to report the number of people who are sterilized while incarcerated.

But we’re so blasé about this holiday that we can’t even decide how to punctuate it. Presidents’ Day seems most grammatically accurate, but you often see it rendered as Presidents Day or even President’s Day.Starting in the 1950s, travel associations lobbied to move Washington’s Birthday to?a Monday?so that more people could vacation on it. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Retail Federation also supported the move to Monday, when it could be tacked on to a shopping weekend.

In a self-recorded video, Moynihan said, “I think every girl is a type of slut, they are fussy with men nowadays, they do not give boys like us a chance.” He continued, “I am still a virgin, everyone is losing it before me, that’s why you are my chosen target.” While waving a knife at the camera, he asked, “Shall I stab you in the neck or in the heart, shall I slash your throat or should I just cigarette lighter you or just fire you. I do not know where I could get petrol from but how hard can it be to come by.”

This is a novel rich with betrayals, personal, professional, academic, marital, and portrayed without sanctimony. The writer shows; the reader judges. How did you arrive at such aesthetic and personal equanimity?All this is perhaps too intellectual because it does not approach the mood that the book has left me with: A sense of loss but not defeat; a sense that I have learned more about life than I had thought I knew before I turned your pages.

Though he has been doing better than some of his counterparts, his bracket seems to be too competitive for him, strategist Nicole Wallace said on Rachel Maddow’s show last night. She went on to say that voters appear largely hungry for a candidate outside of the political establishment, explaining Donald Trump’s and Ben Carson’s surge in recent polls.

The early Cold Warriors, up to the mid- to late 50’s are pretty unambiguous about still supporting what they did, but they don’t particularly look at the strategies. When you get into the time between ’58 and ’67, these are the participants who offer a much more nuanced and often devastatingly critical analysis of the strategies they used, even if they might defend their attempt. It’s a distinction between motivation and consequences.Some of the officers were only involved for the one year that they were elected officials of the NSA. Others spent five years with the agency because if you did that, apart from basic training, you got an exemption from the draft. That had great meaning during the Korean War, as several former participants explained to me. They said,?look, it kept me out of Korea!?Others still stayed far longer and became career officers.